A teenager is facing a life sentence after being convicted of the cold blooded murder of synagogue groundsman David Evans.

A teenager is facing a life sentence after being convicted of the cold blooded murder of synagogue groundsman David Evans.

Mr Justice MacDuff told factory worker Bleddyn Rees King, 19, "There is just one sentence which can be passed and the only issue is the minimum number of years you will have to serve before you are released. I will have to make a decision about that."

King, who had admitted manslaughter but denied murder, was remanded back into custody where he has been held since his chance arrest the night of the sickening attack.

He had stabbed and kicked his victim to death in the man's bungalow home at Cefn Bychan, Pentyrch last January.

Cardiff Crown Court heard how he was short of money and trawled a gay date website, using the profile name Big Wolf 1993, for likely targets to rob.

One man, a local amateur dramatics enthusiast, had a lucky escape when he couldn't make a meeting with King because of a production, prosecutor Michael Mather-Lees QC had told the jurors.

Widower Mr Evans, a 63-year-old former RAF fireman and father of two sons, formerly of Western Drive, Gabalfa, was not so fortunate.

He arranged to meet King who lived with his mother and older brother at Abercynon Road, Abercynon at the village's Navigation pub and drive him back to the home where he lived alone.

That meeting was at 8pm on January 26.

Just three hours later, King was recording himself on his phone referring to the man old enough to be his grandfather as a '****ing dead b******'.

"By then he had probably already been killed" Mr Mather-Lees said.

Later still, after midnight, the teen killer was using his phone again.

This time he was filming the blood-soaked bedroom and his own foot as it came down over and over again on Mr Evans' face as he lay motionless on the floor.

"It was brutality of the most extreme kind - cold blooded murder", the prosecutor told the court.

"The knife used, which was found in the defendant's pocket, was bent - doubtless because of the force he had used".

Five foot five inch tall Mr Evans, who had been described as a quiet man who was something of a lost soul since the death of his wife in 2008, had over 100 different injuries on his body - bruises, grazes, cuts and stab wounds which included one to his neck.

Cynical King blamed him for the violence, claiming he had lost control of his actions because the older man went further sexually than he wanted to go.

He denied picking Mr Evans out as the most vulnerable victim on the website and said there was nothing sinister in the fact he had asked computer contacts what they did for a living, whether they drove a car and if they lived alone, before arranging to meet.

He said he'd had girlfriends but was confused and just wanted to explore his sexuality and mainly talk to anyone he met.

But friends of his, called as witnesses, said he had boasted to them about having a job lined up where he would be invited to the home of a gay man and would rob him.

One said he spoke of killing someone, saying the best way would be to stab them in the neck then drag the body to a room and set fire to it.

Mr Evans' bungalow was set alight in three different places.

Next to his name and number in King's phone was written the word 'Job'.

Speaking after the trial on behalf of Mr Evans' family, his son Richard said: “David was a gentle and loving father, brother, uncle and grandfather.

“His death earlier this year in such a violent and needless manner has devastated our family.

“We would like to thank the South Wales Police team who have investigated my father’s murder and the jury for their attentiveness during the trial.

“My father met his murderer over the internet, which I hope will serve as a warning to others who meet strangers in this way.”

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